Happy New Year and welcome back! Hope you are staying warm.
Expanding the scope of this week's newsletter since things are pretty light.
On a more serious note: Here is a running list of mutual aid groups helping people and animals on the ground in Los Angeles that is being coordinated by the Mutual Aid LA Network.
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BYOI stands for "Bring Your Own Instruments" and that is exactly what's on dock for this performance of Terry Riley's landmark 1964 composition. Any noisemaker is welcome to join, regardless of how little or how much they've practiced, and whether they can read notation at all. Is this you? Yes it is. This has the same egalitarian vibe as Glenn Branca's "Hallucination City: Symphony 13 for 100 Guitars," which I participated in way back in the early aughts (I did the Montclair performance), and frankly this is the kind of weirdo collaborative shit that I live for.
A bunch of Philly's finest purveyors of loud-fast-rules punk convene at Cousin Danny's to raise funds for local health service organization Courage Medicine, who work to address healthcare disparities for black and brown folks. Discounted admission if you bring an old coat, jacket or fresh socks to contribute.
Kennedy Mann of the late(?) and totally great Highnoon returns to Philly for more of their dreamy guitar pop that wouldn't sound completely out of place next to Love Child or similar. Tofu Smell might be a terrible band name (it's not the worst), but they sound like Elliott Smith and have a record on Hardly Art. Never judge a book, etc.
Bowerbird brings back the legend of ambient and new age music with no opener. The Rotunda is the perfect spot for you to bliss out to before we get sucked into the Inaugration Hellscape and everything thereafter.
Barry Enderwick's social media channel devoted to making sandwich recipes of yesteryear is the perfect intersection of food and media history. If there's only one good upside to the algorithim, it making me aware of it. In the academia biz, I believe this is what's considered praxis. Not too long ago, Dean Clean of the Dead Milkmen made an appearance on SOH; now he's the special guest for both the early and late portions of this event. Pass me a Zippy Wiener Broil and let's fight over whether a hot dog counts as a sandwich.
For many of a certain vintage we first came into contact with the enigmatic Q Lazzarus through filmmaker Jonathan Demme's works, who featured "Goodbye Horses" in 1988's Married to the Mob and 1991's Silence of the Lambs. (Or maybe it was in Kevin Smith's Clerks 2, if you're a few years younger.)
Behind the name, Diane Luckey was 25-year old NYC taxi driver, writing songs which fit in perfectly with the likes of Alison Moyet and Annie Lennox, though with limited success before dropping out of the public eye entirely. Filmmaker Eva Aridjis Fuentes explores the life of this cult artist, her disappearance, and the reappraisal of Q (which includes a forthcoming anthology on Sacred Bones). Fuentes and Luckey's son, James, will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A.
Local Pastorius punx Cartoon perform a live score to accompany Jean Cocteau's 1930 surrealist film Blood of a Poet.
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